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A breeding mount with built-in artificial vagina used to collect semen from horses for use in artificial insemination. Semen collection refers to the process of obtaining semen from human males or other animals with the use of various methods, for the purposes of artificial insemination, or medical study (usually in fertility clinics).
This procedure is used frequently with large mammals, particularly bulls and some domestic animals, as well as humans who have certain types of anejaculation. Electroejaculation has also been used for the cryoconservation of animal genetic resources , where semen is stored in low temperatures with the intent of conserving genetic material and ...
The CIAQ provides cattle farmers with bulls from the Ayrshire, Canadienne, Holstein, Jersey and Brown Swiss milk producing breeds along with other beef breeds. Around 800,000 doses of semen from the CIAQ's banks are used yearly by farmers in Quebec, Nova Scotia and around the world through the Semex Alliance, of which the CIAQ is a founding ...
Using frozen semen for dairy cattle has been done since the 1950s. The oldest semen believed to be in existence was from a sire named Cottonade Emmet, who was a member of the American Breeders Service sire battery in 1952. Semen was collected on Emmet in November 1952 and has been used several times to produce offspring. However, the last time ...
Buckers, Inc. registered and certified records of Bodacious' progeny that could be documented via semen collection. They also started collecting other top bulls' semen. By 2003, Buckers had 11,000 cattle registered. Then-CEO Randy Bernard at the PBR was so impressed that he bought out Buckers and renamed the company to American Bucking Bull ...
Osborndale Ivanhoe (1952–1970), Holstein bull owned by Frances Osborne Kellogg and mated 100,187 times and whose semen was shipped all over the world. [40] Toystory (2001–2014), Holstein bull whose semen has sold more than 2.4 million units worldwide and has been estimated to have sired over 500,000 offspring [41]
In 2012, Toystory produced a world record-breaking 2 millionth unit of semen at eleven years of age, and was the first Holstein bull in history to achieve this mark. [3] Over his lifetime Toystory produced 2.4 million units of semen. Toystory died on Thanksgiving Day in 2014 at thirteen years of age.
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